To Make Monsters Out of Girls Review

"What happens when the man of your dreams turns out to be a nightmare with sharp teeth and claws?"

Winner of the 2016 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Poetry, amanda lovelace presents her new illustrated duology, “things that h(a)unt.” In this first installment, to make monsters out of girls, lovelace explores the memory of being in an abusive relationship. She poses the eternal question: Can you heal once you’ve been marked by a monster, or will the sun always sting?

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Some Testimonial About This Book:

Dannii Elle

This is the third of Amanda Lovelace's anthologies, that I have read, and I am convinced that she is incapable of ever penning a badly phrased or unstructured thought. Like her other two collections, ...

Azrah

the monster made himselfanother monsterbecause he couldn’t standbeing a monsterall byhimself.- & yet that weight grows heavier still.This collection of poems is about being in a relationship with so...

Cyrus Parker

I first read this when Amanda published it on Wattpad a couple of years ago as a thank you to her readers for supporting her debut, the princess saves herself in this one, and even then, I knew this w...

Liv (Stories For Coffee)

ACTUAL RATING: 4.5 STARSIf you’re going through a break up or have been through one, you must read this collection of poetry. This collection has the power to help people heal from the wounds others...

Gelisvb

Amanda, please, stop milking the dead cow! This is the third book and I am starting to feel bad for your husband.Can you please start talking about how the princess saved herself and moved on for good...

Chelsea

I feel weird rating a book of personal poetry because I feel like I’m 3 starring this girl’s love life...But I didn’t connect to this collection as much as her others, though I still tabbed and ...

Julia Sapphire

3.5...

lucie

I loved the illustrations and the ending but overall was the collection average....

Sabrina The Trash Queen

“There is at least one good deed that i can attribute to you. It was only after you left me stranded & i found myself still breathing that i knew i could withstand everything that came after you”...

Rian *fire and books*

The pain, the agony, they’re all there, on each page, ready to be read, by the right person. You. Read when you’re ready to move on. Read when you’re ready to accept you’re toxic too. Read whe...